Sunday, December 16, 2012

Donna and Blitzen

From Badly Drawn Boy, a song about reindeer who are not named Rudolph. (Finally!)

"Baby, it's not your sleigh ride," sings Damon Gough, but don't think there's a bummer in store; this is as optimistic a tune as any you'll hear at Christmas, and even though it's for, um, reindeer, it has always struck me as the pep talk we all need heading into a new year, a big night or any kind of adventure.

This is the 16th in a musical advent calendar I'm compiling this year. Two thirds there!

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Donna and Blitzen

From Badly Drawn Boy, a song about reindeer who are not named Rudolph. (Finally!)

"Baby, it's not your sleigh ride," sings Damon Gough, but don't think there's a bummer in store; this is as optimistic a tune as any you'll hear at Christmas, and even though it's for, um, reindeer, it has always struck me as the pep talk we all need heading into a new year, a big night or any kind of adventure.

This is the 16th in a musical advent calendar I'm compiling this year. Two thirds there!

Why Dot Dot Dot?

That is, where did this blog get its name?

Dot Dot Dot is Morse code for the letter 'S,' the full message Guglielmo Marconi claimed to have received atop Signal Hill in St. John's in 1901. It ushered in the age of telecommunications. My maternal grandfather worked as a telegraph operator for Canadian Marconi on Signal Hill for many years.
As well, I have a habit of overusing the ellipsis when I write ... as frequent readers might notice.